Obama Set To Sign Bill Widening Hate Crime Laws

Unlikely Advocates Fight For Gay Rights In Mich. City
Last June, the city council of Holland voted against adding sexual orientation and gender identity to local anti-discrimination laws. Now, religious leaders and Republicans have joined to...

Obama Signs Defense Bill With Hate Crimes Provision
The measure expands current hate crimes law to include violence based on gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. To ensure its passage after years of frustrated efforts,...

House Vote Advances End To Ban On Gays In Military
The House voted 229-186 to pass a defense bill approving more than $700 billion for military programs and containing an amendment overturning the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" law allowing...

Handel: Water Music Suites

The Bell Jar
Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath...